On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm interested to see how patch piloting works out for you as reviewers > and how much the workflows in our team differ. > > When I did my shift last week I noticed that a couple of merge proposals > had their last comment saying "Would you mind forwarding the patch to > Debian/Upstream?" with no activity since. I guess many of us check the > bug or merge proposal later on again and dismiss it as something that > was already looked at. The problem is obvious: if the contributor has no > interest in doing this (or does not know how), it might sit there for a > very long time.
As an example (of something I don't know what to do with), there are currently 5 dependent merge proposals in the queue: lp:~pali/ubuntu/oneiric/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools lp:~pali/ubuntu/oneiric/cryptsetup/cryptsetup lp:~pali/ubuntu/oneiric/lsb/lsb lp:~pali/ubuntu/oneiric/kubuntu-default-settings/kubuntu-default-settings They're all dependent on: https://code.launchpad.net/~pali/ubuntu/natty/plymouth/plymouth/+merge/61897 The User/developer developed their changes against Ubuntu, because that is where they get their software. To He/She (and I would suspect a *great* number of people), it is quite possible that Ubuntu acceptance is really all that matters. >From Ubuntu's perspective, it was the right thing to ask that it be submitted upstream to see how they felt about it. The user went ahead and did that, but no-one has responded upstream on the mailing list to the post. The patches can surely use some work, but I believe that the general goal is desirable (even if you disagree, you can imagine a case that would be). It seems quite likely that if the developer does not have help, they're quite likely to a.) give up on this patch b.) give up on submitting to Ubuntu Should we go the *extra* mile and push on the Upstream, and help to clean the patches up and provide doc? I don't want to sound like I'm just "Punching the clock", but this series of proposals could very easily eat my 4 hour block of piloting. I think that is one reason that people have shied away from it. To me, a large value of the Patch Pilot was to give someone a "friend" or "champion" in Ubuntu. This series of patches is in-need of that. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
